PLM systems by themselves are incomplete - they do not allow manufacturers to control the method or process in which a product is manufactured. They can provide the data from design and production but fail to deliver one critical facet of manufacturing - how to define benchmarks for measuring successful manufacturing strategies and implementing such benchmarks consistently on an ongoing basis . That is where CAMeLEAN^® comes to the rescue. By enabling manufacturers to capture and implement such benchmarks against the manufacturing process plan, CAMeLEAN^® provides a command and control structure for process definition, measurement and improvement in the manufacturing lifecycle in a repeatable, consistent way across the extended manufacturing enterprise.

CAMeLEAN^® has been built from the ground up to smoothly integrate with the existing Enterprise Manufacturing Information Infrastructure. Working with data from the design and the manufacturing areas of activity, it assimilates the information into a complete knowledge entity that can be harnessed for analysis and control of the manufacturing process lifecycle. It also enables all the members of the extended enterprise - be it designers, managers, engineers, suppliers or operatives - to contribute and monitor the manufacturing information stream.